On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote:
So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432' is lock file where the system puts a lock on port 5432 for postmaster to listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster commands can't create that file because /tmp is writeable only by root (drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 16 11:06 tmp). Of course I can't start the postmaster as root, so I'm a bit perplexed as to what to do, and why I never had this problem before.
You need to change the permissions on /tmp. I'd be curious to know how it got this way. Has anyone done chmods on /tmp? It should be 1777/drwxrwxrwt, so a chmod 1777 /tmp should fix it for you.
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